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Welcome every new month so

pre- ciously that it show-ers its lights on you. Have a nice day with welcome March. This month we started with a new col-umn on College roundup, the objec-tive is to have Networking beyond WhatsApp, since Networking is not about just connecting people. It's about connecting people with peo-ple, people with ideas, and people with opportunities and our Campus connect section gives us an oppor-tunity to know the team behind every department which has al-lowed collaborating our faculties to capture each other's strength of collective intelligence. I am becom-ing more curious about ideas than the people who share it, our articles idea have been getting generated only through our forwards, in that row, I touch the Ph.D. Viva voce part this month. Once again I invite all to make use of this platform to showcase your ideas. Please feel free to give suggestions apart from your contributions. Thank you.

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CBSE NET 2018 Exam Events

Starting date of online application 6th March 2018

The last date of application 5th April 2018

Downloading Admit Card 10 days before exam

CBSE NET 2018 Exam Date 8th July 2018 Python Workshop @ Sridevi,

Ponneri on 27 and 28 Feb. 2018

"CYBER BOUT 2K18" @ KRMMC on 21st Feb. 18

Vidhya Sagar Women's College graduation day held on 24/02/18 @ college premises. Honourable Gover-nor Shri. Banvarilal Prohith graced the occasion

20th convocation in Kanchi Shri Krishna college of arts and science Chief guest Prof Dr.M.R.srinivasan, hod statistics, UoM and academic dean

NSGIODE18 at Anna Adarsh College for Women organized by CS Dept. of Computer. Sc. on 27.02.2018

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C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E V O L U M E 1

Guide for Ph.D. viva voce A

1. Submit a thesis, which make you proud

2. Choose the right examiners 3. Read your thesis as many times as

possible 4. Know your argument 5. Realise what you could have done

differently 6. Never doubt yourself 7. Relax the night before 8. Dress to impress 9. Take a copy of your thesis to the viva 10. Be positive on any comments and

criticisms

Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu We are all grown up and groomed with Konnar Guides, which always given us a confident and made us exam ready, here is a tips in the same format for you to face your Ph.D viva voce examination. Submit-ting your PhD thesis is a massive achievement – but it’s not the end of the journey, next comes, viva voce. There are Ten Commandments for Viva voice prepa-ration. The primary objective of viva voce is to: confirm that the thesis is your own work;  confirm that you understand what you have writ-

ten;  investigate your awareness of where your original

work sits in relation to the wider research field;  Provide a developmental opportunity for consider-

ing future publication and research options. 

Examiners Examiners have different personalities, styles, and levels of experience. Some-times a candidate may feel that a chal-lenge has been made in a offensive way. They will seek to find and discuss weak-nesses in all theses. You should not in-terpret criticism as an indication that you will not get a constructive outcome. Examiners will not be improperly chal-lenging, but some individuals are popu-lar for such approaches. In such situa-tions, follow the Do’s and Don’ts they are: Don’t: give a general, resigned declaration

that ‘this happens in every study’;  blame your supervisor for the weak-

ness;  blame your data;  say ‘that was beyond the scope of my

study’, without giving a cogent argu-ment to support the statement; 

dismiss what is identified as a weak-ness as unimportant. 

Do’s: A better approach is to: take time to consider before replying;  remember to breathe and to speak

reasonably slowly;  don’t take criticism personally;  don’t take offence;  don’t get angry;  enjoy the opportunity to talk about

your research. Create a list of viva questions, here we have a 40 Frequently Asked viva Ques-tions (FAQ), like Alibaba, keep yourself always equipped to encounter these questions.

1. Can you start by summarising your thesis? 2. Now, can you summarise it in one sentence? 3. What is the idea that binds your thesis together? 4. What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research? 5. What are the main issues and debates in this subject area? 6. Which of these does your research address? 7. Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling? 8. Who has had the strongest influence in the development of your subject

area in theory and practice? 9. Which are the three most important papers that relate to your thesis? 10. What published work is closest to yours? How is your work different? 11. What do you know about the history of [insert something relevant]? 12. How does your work relate to [insert something relevant]? 13. What are the most recent major developments in your area? 14. How did your research questions emerge? 15. What were the crucial research decisions you made? 16. Why did you use this research methodology? What did you gain from it? 17. What were the alternatives to this methodology? 18. What would you have gained by using another approach? 19. How did you deal with the ethical implications of your work? 20. How has your view of your research topic changed? 21. How have you evaluated your work? 22. How do you know that your findings are correct? 23. What are the strongest/weakest parts of your work? 24. What would have improved your work? 25. To what extent do your contributions generalise? 26. Who will be most interested in your work? 27. What is the relevance of your work to other researchers? 28. What is the relevance of your work to practitioners? 29. Which aspects of your work do you intend to publish – and where? 30. Summarise your key findings. 31. Which of these findings are the most interesting to you? Why? 32. How do your findings relate to literature in your field? 33. What are the contributions to knowledge of your thesis? 34. How long-term are these contributions? 35. What are the main achievements of your research? 36. What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD? 37. What advice would you give to a research student entering this area? 38. You propose future research. How would you start this? 39. What would be the difficulties? 40. And, finally… What have you done that merits a PhD?

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Prof. N. Manoharan M.Sc, PGDCA, M.Phil

HoD Dept. of Comp. Science  

Pattamal Alagesan College of Arts and Science, Athur,  

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